CHALLENGE OF NEW DAY 29 



There must be no longer a mere drift into activities. 

 Statesmen must be made to see the significance of agri- 

 culture in the national economy and even in the mutual 

 interchange of different nations. Adequate machinery 

 of government must be made available for aid to the 

 big agricultural enterprises. Collective action of farm- 

 ers must replace the futile aims of single handed en- 

 deavor. Leaders, equal to every demand of the New 

 Day, must spring from the loins of the farmers them- 

 selves. 



4. That the farmer shall have his proper place in 

 the new democratic society. But let it be understood 

 that farmers cannot take their rightful place in national 

 or in world councils unless they make the place for 

 themselves. It is far from a mere matter of aggres- 

 siveness due to powerful group associations or wordy 

 assertions. They must have something to contribute. 

 The farmers must make clear to themselves what 

 democracy really is, how they can best fit into it, what 

 are their relations to the rest of society, what are their 

 particular rights and their peculiar duties; they must 

 be able to express all these things to themselves and to 

 others. 



These items then constitute the challenge to the 

 farmer which comes out of the New Day: (i) That 

 his task is to feed the world; (2) that in doing; it he 



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must have a fair profit; (3) that he must organize his 

 forces both for his own interest and in society's interest; 

 and (4) that he must have his due place in the new, 

 democracy. 



